{"id":626500,"date":"2025-12-11T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626500\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:20:14","slug":"wba-regular-heavyweight-title-finds-its-spiritual-home-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626500\/","title":{"rendered":"WBA \u2018Regular\u2019 heavyweight title finds its spiritual home in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">This time they will have their fun in the desert \u2013 Dubai, to be exact. That\u2019s where Kubrat Pulev will defend the belt against Russia\u2019s Murat Gassiev on Friday and, in truth, there can be no better place for the business of WBA \u201cRegular\u201d heavyweight boxing to find its home. If we thought a decrepit casino in Miami ticked every box when Dubois and Bryan boxed there for the belt in 2022, we were wrong. This is even better. This brings the WBA \u201cRegular\u201d heavyweight title to the land of plastic, shiny things and gives it the opportunity to dazzle in a way only Dubai really can. Better yet, it allows the fight to seduce the kind of people only a place like Dubai can seduce. Which is to say, on Friday night, the superficial meets the superficial; the soulless meets the soulless; stuff meets stuff. It\u2019s not so much the blind leading the blind as the fake leading the fake, but the effect, make no mistake, is still the same. It all goes down at the Duty Free Tennis Stadium \u2013 where else? \u2013 and everybody involved, thanks to the WBA\u2019s great dereliction of duty in regard to their titles, will again rally against truth and common sense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This time they will have their fun in the desert \u2013 Dubai, to be exact. That\u2019s where Kubrat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4495,194054,194055,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-626500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxingscene","10":"tag-kubrat-pulev","11":"tag-murat-gassiev","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115701614081970732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}